The Biological Composition of a Drop of Seawater Is Reminiscent of the Blood in My Veins

A poetry collection about oceanic grief, the tides of time, the currents that connect us all, and the waves that change us.

The biological composition of a drop of seawater is reminiscent of the blood in my veins was written in the wake of the death of Simonsen's father. The narrator of the collection navigates his grief and his conflicted sense of masculinity by wandering about an unidentified Faroese village. A complex temporal understanding ebbs and flows throughout, consistently oscillating between the linear and the cyclical, between life and death, blood and the sea, between biology and philosophy.

As the narrator grieves what has been lost, he reimagines and rekindles a kinship with all matter that, in the end, helps him find a new way to connect with his late father, himself, and a more-than-human world that does not rely on nationalist myths or toxic masculinity.

Author: Kim Simonsen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: 11/17/2026
Pages: 130
ISBN: 9781945680939